Celebration Christian Church’s leadership structure based off  The Five-Fold Ministry derived from Ephesians 4:11 “And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;” All are equal and all are for equipping the Body of Christ.

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Michael Shattuck

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Michael Shattuck

Michael Shattuck

Michael was 25 years old when he received salvation from Jesus. He was a successful businessman and had everything that the world had to offer. One night, coming out of a nightclub in Denver, Colorado, someone gave him a small track, that said simply, “What does a man gain if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?” Now, without having any idea about the power of the word, he listened, listened inwardly to what that said. He didn’t know what his soul was. Over the period of the next month, that word began to explode within him. And finally, one day, on the way to a meeting, the word literally exploded in him, and opened up heaven, where he heard the voice of the Lord and the words of God come into his heart. And God said, “Trust me.” At the point, a demon spirit was cast out of Michael, that had brought him such great fortune, a spirit that was later understood to have come into him in sexual sin at age 11. So 11 to 25, he was literally possessed, involving all kinds of illegal as well as legal activities.

At the time of this salvation, as the word of God and the spirit of God penetrated deep within him, he
got a glimpse of himself, in the corner of a room, naked, bound up with a chain, all bent over, with blood all over him. And then as he saw the Lord, standing next to him, the Lord spoke, “Son, follow me.” At this point, he could do nothing but surrender his life completely to whoever had spoken to him. He didn’t really know the Lord or the Holy Spirit, or God, or anything about it. But he found himself, in a short time, spending time in a mental institution where the family and friends around him suggested he needed to go. After coming out of that mental institution, he was more convinced than ever that God truly was alive and his Son, Jesus, had saved him. The words of the Lord were, “Son, come and follow me.” With that, with that revelation of the word, he began a new life as a son of God. Knowing nothing of religion, he just got into the Bible, began reading the gospels and began to identify himself as a son, with Jesus, and in Jesus. A short time later as he had forsaken everything, sold everything, gave it all away, his wife at that time had divorced him, and he continued on. He came to a place where he was fastened and praying in the desert, down in the southern part of Arizona. And there the Lord, took him into heaven, and like a tour going through paradise and all around the city of God, (and) Holy Jerusalem, he was edified continually, over and over and over of his identity as a son of God.

In revelation of his oneness with Jesus as a member of his own body, revelation of his oneness with Jesus, with the, with the oneness of the whole Kingdom of God and with revelation of his oneness withJesus, in his relationship to the Father. At that point, the Lord said, “Will you take this message, back with you to the end-time church?” And so Michael was sent back from heaven, as an apostle to the end- time church, with a manifest revelation of sons of God, and he spent the last four decades, in taking
that revelation and imparting it into parts of the body, all over the world, bringing increase of all of the word of God, as planted in the hearts of the believers, that they too would come into that revelation.
The anointing upon his ministry has been of such, that has been an anointing of increase, a oneness with the Holy Spirit. As God has instructed others to plant and others to water, He was with Michael, He is with Michael to bring increase of the revelation of Jesus, the Head of the Body, and the members of the Body, as one son, and many sons as members.

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Crissy Vasquez

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Crissy Vasquez

Crissy Vasquez

Most of my life I lived in fear. I was afraid of the dark, and many other things. It was February 1975 and I was in one of those places of fear. A lady came to my door and saw the fear in my face.  She told me “you don’t have to be afraid any longer”.  She told me of the love of Christ and how He died to set me free from fear. I believed her! We prayed and my life was changed in a moment. Jesus became my light, my savior, my deliverer. To this day I fear not and I live in a place of his love that fear can never dwell. John 1:12 To as many as received Him, to them he gave the power to become the sons of God. I am living proof of God’s power and love!

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Danny & Summer Robertson

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Danny and Summer Robertson

Danny and Summer Robertson

Being born into a christian family was a major blessing that i am very thankful for.  Still, I found myself in my teens and early 20′s confused, empty and quite frustrated in regards to my relationship with God.  At the age of 23, the Lord began to reveal to me my true identity as a Son of God.  This was the most profound revelation and turning point in my life aside from my original salvation experience.  The reality of who I am in Christ caused an explosion of joy, faith and freedom in my life.  The Lord began to truly open me up at that point, leading me into areas of business, ministry and creativity that I would have never experienced apart from this experience.  It was at this point that I began to view myself as ‘in Christ’ and that through him ‘all things are possible’.   It’s now my joy to help unlock the immeasurable faith and love that resides within each and every believer of Jesus.

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Psalms & Shem Heiple

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Shem Heiple

Shem Heiple

I came to to know Jesus when I was 25. I had what I would call a supernatural experience of God revealing the truth to me. The truth about His son, Jesus. Most of my life I had believed that there was a God, a creative force or being of some kind that must have created this beautiful and all too perfectly planned and operating universe that we live in. No relationship, just some vague belief that He existed. I truly believed that the duration of our lives on this earth was all there was to our existence and when I would die, I would simply cease to exist. In that state, I did not think much about the purpose of my life and would often be overwhelmed by the hopelessness of this reality.

My encounter with the truth was this: I was chatting with a good friend of mine who, not for the first time, began explaining to me the story of the gospel of Jesus. I had heard this before and was thinking ‘Oh no, not this this story again. It just doesn’t make any sense’  then quite suddenly something in me changed and every part of my being was telling me that this is the truth, more true and real than anything I have ever known or experienced, it was more real to me than even my own body sitting there. I was stunned by this and could not stop thinking about the reality of Jesus dying for me and restoring my relationship to the Father, God. That night I could not sleep, I had to call out to God and ask Him for forgiveness for my unbelief and that if this really was the truth then I was giving my life back to Him and wanted everything that He had for me. Right then and there I experienced the “transference from the darkness and into His glorious light” as it says in 2 Peter 2:9. Now my eyes are ever being opened wider and wider in that glorious light, to see and receive more of His reality, more of who He is and who I am in Him.